The Byzantine Empire
By: Elsa Marston.
Series: Cultures of the past
Publisher: Benchmark Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Byzantine Empire -- History -- Juvenile literature.; Byzantine Empire -- History.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Traces the history, society, culture, and lasting influences of the Byzantine Empire, which grew from the decaying Roman empire and ruled from Constantinople from the fourth to the end of the fifteenth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 77) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The empire of the East; title: 2. The heavenly kingdom on earth; title: 3. How the heavenly kingdom worked; title: 4. Life in Byzantium; title: 5. Glimmers of the golden empire today.